Gimp is a free and open-source image editor. Gimp is a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop image editor, if you have moved recently from Microsoft Windows to any Linux distributions. Also, it works with various platforms. Check what’s new in Gimp 2.8.6 and Download links down below.

This release of Gimp brings many bug fixes, improvements to the graphical user interface “GUI” and fixes some plugin issues. Also, it comes with a new Hungarian translation and several translation updates. Here’s an overview of the recent changes of Gimp since Gimp 2.8.4.

Core:

Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix save/export of compressed files.

Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction.

Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024×1024.

Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed.

GUI:

Don’t allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition.

Make sure a single-window’s right docks keep their size across sessions.

Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again.

In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas, and beep if the focus is already there.

Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don’t crash.

Make clicking the single-window’s close button quit GIMP.

Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks.